Evobus GmbH has received a record order for 56 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro electric urban buses from ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft GmbH.

Matt Scheuler has been put in charge of all sales and strategic planning across the bus companies at the REV Group, which is headquartered in Wisconsin and which has bus subsidiaries located in Salina, Kansas; South Hutchinson, Kansas; and Imlay City, Michigan.

In February this year, a number of leading brands involved in the supply of hydrogen and in fuel cell electric vehicle manufacture - namely Air Liquide, Hyundai, NEL, Nikola Motor, Shell and Toyota - signed a Memorandum of Understanding for hydrogen fuelling components, for the purpose of testing state of the art heavy duty hydrogen fuelling hardware to assist in standardization and speed to market of fuel cell electric trucks.

Producer of specialist tankers, Whale Tankers Ltd, unveiled the UK’s first fully electric medium volume combination tanker at this year’s CV Show last month.

Dana Incorporated is partnering with Canada’s electric drive and charging infrastructure specialist, Nordresa, to integrate its Spicer Electrified eS9000r e-Axle on the Isuzu Truck North America Inc N-Series chassis for commercial fleet applications.

This year's Advanced Clean Technology Expo in California saw Allison Transmission Inc introduce the new ABE Series electric axle, which, it claims, is the first e-axle advanced ultra-low floor electric bus powertrain system in the market.

Vehicle builder and chassis producer, Workhorse Group Inc – a subsidiary since 2013 of AMP Holdings Inc - has formed a strategic partnership with Michigan-based Prefix Corporation for the final design, development and production of its N-GEN series of all-electric medium delivery vehicles.

Independent bus builder, Blue Bird Corporation, announced delivery of its 5,000th Type C gasoline-powered Blue Bird Vision Gasoline school bus, since it was launched in the autumn of 2016.

Vehicle builders,  Beiqi Foton Motor Co Ltd (Foton),  Toyota Motor Company, and fuel cell developer, Beijing SinoHytec Co Ltd have announced an agreement for all three parties to jointly develop fuel cell buses.

Trevor Milton, Nikola CEO and founder of electric truck concern, Nikola Motor Company, at an event held at its WestWorld facility in Scottsdale, said the company was actively pursuing hydrogen as a ubiquitous fuel for its electric vehicles and that it had just committed to making an initial investment of USD16m to build Nikola's new fuel cell development laboratory and that staged investments in the new facility was expected to exceed several hundred million dollars.

After announcing development of a hydrogen-electric truck for European markets back in November, the electric vehicle pioneer, Nikola Motor Company unveiled Nikola Tre at a major event held at its WestWorld facility in Scottsdale.

DAF Trucks NV has announced it is investing EUR200m to expand its cab plant in Westerlo by 45%.